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...feared a takeover by Japanese firms during the 1980s, have exported their cutthroat pricing to Tokyo with stunning success. Led by IBM, Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...
...these machines to modify them so they will run his new programs. Judging by the blue-chip companies that will be sharing the dais with him when he unveils his system this week at the Hotel Macklowe in midtown Manhattan -- Hewlett-Packard, Ricoh, Compaq Computer, Minolta, McCaw Cellular, Canon, NEC and Northern Telecom -- he seems to have made remarkable progress. Says Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future: "This may not be it, but it is one more step toward the Holy Grail of the paperless office...
Harvard comes into the tournament as the number two seed. Princeton, the defending NEC champions, is the number one seed...
Rudenstine also met with the heads of several major Japanese corporations, including Toyota, Sony, Toshiba, NEC and IBM-Japan...
Aggressive American manufacturers, who currently have about 15% of the Japanese PC market, quickly countered NEC's move with more slugging. IBM, together with the Japanese office-equipment maker Canon, announced the development of a notebook PC with a built-in printer that they would sell for $2,380. Fast-growing Dell Computer opened a subsidiary in Tokyo and began its famed direct sales to customers. In Dell's line...